Exclusions in Feminist Thought

Challenging the Boundaries of Womanhood

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2002
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-902210-63-6 (ISBN)

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What does feminism mean? Can we say that such a thing as a women's movement exists? Why are so few women willing to identify as feminist? And what might a feminist theory and practice capable of addressing the aspirations of all women look like? This book explores these fundamental questions about women's needs, experiences, and ideas.

What does feminism mean at the millennium? Can we say that such a thing as a women's movement exists anymore, and, if so, in what form? Why are so few women willing to identify as feminist; are we really post-feminism, or do we still need a woman-centered political discourse? And what might a feminist theory and practice capable of addressing the aspirations of all women look like? These are the fundamental questions about women's needs, experiences, and ideas explored in this volume. This powerful and empowering volume challenges conventional notions about differences of race, class and sexuality among women, bringing critical insights from the fields of anthropology, cultural and ethnic studies, history, sociology, and literary studies. Examined in this collection are many aspects of exclusion in feminist thought, including women's use of masculinist theory, the processes of tokenism and erasure prevalent in educational institutions, and the status of women in erotic discourse.

Mary Brewer is Lecturer in English at De Montfort University, Leicester.

Contents: Introduction by Mary Brewer; Practising Difference Differently: Cyborg Consciousness and Political Practice; Ivory Towers and Guardians of the Word: Language and Discourse in the Academy; TransForm/ando Women's Studies: Latina Theory: Re-Imagines America; Violating the Seal of Race: The Politics of (Post)Identity and the Theatre of Adrienne Kennedy; (Post)Colonial (Dis)orders: Female Embodiment as Chaos in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions and Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine; "See, I've got my tit out!": Women's Performance Art and Punk Rock; Leaving Las Vegas: Reading the Prostitute as a Voice of Abjection; Theorising Feminisms: Breast Cancer Narratives and Reconstructed 'Women'; Aboriginal Women and the Canadian Women's Movement; Where Metaphor Meets Materiality: The Spatialised Subject and the Limits of Locational Feminism; Feminism and the Aesthetic; Bodily Transactions: Jean Genet in the Feminist Debate; 'Doing' Judith: Race, Mixed Race and Performativity; Mary Wollstonecraft: Feminist, Lesbian or Transgendered?; The Contributors; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.1.2002
Verlagsort	Liverpool
Sprache	englisch
Maße	229 x 152 mm
Gewicht	530 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-902210-63-8 / 1902210638
ISBN-13	978-1-902210-63-6 / 9781902210636
Zustand	Neuware